230 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
they constantly associate together, although apparently al- 
‘ways engaged in quarreling. This may be caused through 
jealousy, for report states that the tame hen-birds much 
prefer the attentions of the wild cocks, and that if they are 
not carefully watched they will stray off with their para- 
mour, regardless of the ties that connect them to their le- 
gitimate protector. 
A half-bred Frenchman residing on the banks of the Em- 
baras told me that whenever he wanted a wild turkey, he 
tied a piece of scarlet cloth around the neck of his domes- 
tic male bird and turned him loose, when every unreclaim- 
ed turkey in the neighborhood was certain to come and at- 
tack him, fearlessly affording the easiest shots. 
I have occasionally shot them over setters, but in each in- 
stance the victims were not full grown. When hounds are 
running deer in a neighborhood this description of game 
frequents, they appear to lose their habitual caution, and ex- 
pose themselves to the hunter in the most reckless manner. 
